Toledo's glass factories, confronting declining orders for auto windshields, are focused on making solar panels.
The Schering-Plough Corporation, which is struggling to overcome declining orders for its Claritin allergy treatment, said yesterday that it plans to buy back marketing rights to the cancer medicine Leucomax from Novartis.
The health care division is still grappling with a consent decree on manufacturing requirements that has kept it from shipping some surgical X-ray equipment, and with declining orders for diagnostic equipment from clinics because insurers have lowered reimbursement rates.
In the United States, according to the Institute for Supply Management survey, a plurality of companies reported declining orders for three months through September, but since then the figures have been positive, although by very narrow margins in November and December.
News of declining orders for costly durable goods pushed the broad market up but did little to fuel a rally in the tech sector.
The company continued to have a confrontational relationship with workers in the Philippines and closed the factory in 2009, citing declining orders for the products being manufactured.
Right from the start, Max Fish was a high-volume, low-margin business: in 1989, a can of Budweiser cost two dollars, and the bartenders had a tacit agreement to decline orders for drinks that contained more than three ingredients.
The electorate votes for a single candidate while indicating, in declining order, their preferences for the remaining candidates.
Alongside that decision came a commitment to give legal protection in the workplace to religious people who opposed same-sex marriage because of their beliefs, which would apply to cases such as the Northern Irish bakery found guilty of discrimination after declining an order for a cake bearing a pro-gay marriage slogan.
Though heavy-truck orders, which make up about a quarter of Navistar's sales, are in decline, orders for medium-sized trucks are more stable, and sales of Navistar's diesel engines, which are used in U.P.S., U-Haul and pickup trucks, continues to grow.
